UNUSUAL ANALYSIS ON THE REAL AND UNKNOWN FACTORS AND REASONS FOR THE OUTCOME OF THE GENERAL ELECTION, 2018 – PART III.

8.       FINAS AND HOW IT ESCAPED FROM BEING ANOTHER SCANDAL OR CONTROVERSY OF CONCERN FOR THE THEN OPPOSITION.


Finas could have helped Umno and BN government, if this agency had
been used properly by KKMM If the ministers and officials of the
ministry and agency knew how to develop it properly. In the end its
failure and the failure of the ministers benefited Pakatan.
          The National Film Development Corporation of Malaysia or
Finas for Filem Nasional, was fomed under the Act of Parliament in 1981,
by the then Deputy Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohammad
(later Tun).
I was at Columbia University in New York City working on my
masters degree in film directing when I heard of it. I wrote to him about it and received a reply in the form of a letter that he personally signed.
          Unfortunately, he did not seek views and proposals from me that
could be incorporated into the Act. It was approved by Members of
Parliament, all of who were not qualified in film.
          So basically the Act has a lot of flaws in it, so no wonder even
with Finas and with it having been around since 1981 or for almost thirty
seven years, the film industry is still in the doldrums.
          I remember how its first director-general, Ismail Zain, who was
formerly director of Balai Senilukis Negara (BLSN) told me that ‘Finas
was facing teething problems’.
          In fact, even today, ‘Finas is still facing teething problems’.
          The reason being that the Finas Act of 1981, was flawed to the
teeth, and for that reason, and with no-one in the organization or
government agency who is qualified in film, the agency could not develop
the film industry whose state today is no different
than it was before Finas was formed.

9.       FINAS IS THIRTY-SEVEN YEARS THIS YEAR AND IT HAS BEEN ALLOCATED RM1 BILLION OR MORE; BUT WHAT GOOD HAS IT GIVEN TO THE COUNTRY AND INDUSTRY?

 …AND THE 13 MAY, 1969 INCIDENT HAPPENED TWO YEARS
AFTER THE COLLAPSE OF TE OLD MALAYAN CINEMA THEN
BASED IN SINGAPORE.
         
YET NO-ONE IN UMNO AND BN AND THEIR STRATEGISTS
OR THINK-TANKERS KNEW HOW TO USE IT PROPERLY TO
DEVELOP THE NEW MALAYSIAN CINEMA, ASEAN SINEMA
NUSANTARA AND THE NEW ISLAMIC CINEMA.
          And what does the 13 May, 1969 Incident or Tragedy got to do
with GE14 and its results that caused Pakatan to win big to form the
present government? Plenty.
          Unfortunately, none of the experts in history, psychology and
political scientists and seasoned politicians and others who frequented the
ceramahs as their only places of political expressions, would ever know, or
they would have mentioned it even in general terms. They just can’t!
          The fact is Umno and BN did not know what to do with Finas, to
greatly benefit from it, and that they did not know how the 13 May, 1969
incident had happened barely two years after the collapse of the Old
Malayan Cinema then based in Singapore.
          If they had known about it, then surely, they would have enlisted
or got better qualified and trained persons to manage Finas, instead of
letting it to become yet one of the reasons for their own failures and
downfall that started years before GE14 that they didn’t realize even now.
          And with the RM1 billion that had been allocated to Finas, it does
not even managed to introduce, create and develop a new philosophy that
can be used to develop the New Malaysian Cinema and the New Islamic
Cinema, to cause greater Malaysian Unity, or Melayu Unity or Asean Unity and mostly World Muslim Unity.
Again, I am not going to dwell on what possible connection the Old
Malayan Cinema had with the 13 May, 1969 Incident and how the New
Malaysian Cinema and the New Islamic Cinema could be developed so
easily, using my training studying film at Columbia University in New
York City and experience in the industry.

10.     MAHATHIR FACTOR…AND LATER DAY AND LAST-MINUTE RENEGADES AND INGRATES OF UMNO AND BN.

This is both a misnomer and myth, and the Mahathir Mystique has its magical moments and instances that managed to endear himself to many Malaysians including those who had received the brunt of his brute ways to uphold the sanctity of his earlier government, he led for twenty-two years, many of which I and many Malaysians support, however nasty they were.
          No doubt, Mahathir was such a benevolent person and leader; and many could attest to that, for their good fortune.
          Some will no doubt continue to benefit from his charity as Prime Minister for the second time, Number Seven of Malaysia.
          No doubt, he and those who had held strong positions in Umno and BN had become renegades and turned coat to go to the other side that of the opposition, charging how Umno and BN had failed. Their failure were as much as Umno’s and BN’s as much as those renegades’ own.
          They were also part of the problem with Umno and BN who had directly caused them to fail in its later years, thus forcing Mahathir and some others to become vocal and vociferous in wanting to see their collapse; who did not have solutions and on the other hand added more problems to the party and coalition.

11.     DAP, PKR, HAVE STOPPED FROM BEING THE PARTIES, AS WE KNEW IT…

Not many have realized this; but the DAP and PKR opposition parties that we knew it had all died in the aftermath of GE14. And the voters unknowingly, especially those who are their staunch supporters had ensured that this happened, even when they did not mean to.
          The few of their leaders who were most vociferous in ceramahs and other public rallies and protests, have all been tamed, now that they have responsibilities in government where they now hold senior posts.
          These people had been harping on many issues, including those mentioned above, and others, surrounding their own selves, and going all over the country screaming themselves coarse, and prancing all over the stage, are now mute.
          Did their voters envisage the time when this could happen? They never did.
          So essentially DAP and PKR and also PPBM have become the Neo-Barisan Nasional or more exactly the Pseudo-BN, while the Old Umno and Old BN have not yet morphed to become the Neo-DAP and PKR yet.
          Although in the social media some of the former members of the cabinet and parliament and state assemblies are starting to sound like them, although they are not using coarse words to condemn or criticize of belittle their opposition and those who are now in the government. 
          And their only source of strength lies sorely on how long and how many voters they can get, and not in the size of their party members, who could very well turn against them as did the many Umno and the BN coalition parties whose members had voted opposition in the last two or three general elections.



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